Nokia has devoted a lot of effort to raising its profile in North America in the past two years and has recently formed a joint venture with Sanyo of Japan to produce fancy CDMA handsets.
Companies that have been caught lapsing, such as Tyco International, devote a lot of effort to telling their customers and employees what they are doing to fix their problems.
In a recent study Joëlle Miffre and Georgios Rallis of the Cass Business School in London found 13 profitable momentum strategies in commodity markets with an average annual return of 9.4% between 1979 and 2004.Modern CTAs like Aspect and Winton (run by David Harding, another founder of AHL) devote a lot of effort to researching new ways of exploiting momentum.
In the AT&T decision John Roberts, the chief justice, devoted a lot of effort to demonstrating that "personal" is more than an adjectival offshoot of "person": when a company's boss asks his finance director a "personal" question he is not likely to be asking about the company's balance-sheet.
Wall Street has devoted a lot of effort in recent years to creating hybrid securities that would look like preferred stock on corporate balance sheets and thereby make the company appear to have more equity, but whose payments would qualify as tax-deductible interest payments for the company.
Researchers at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences at NRC are devoting a lot of effort to find ways to control this self assembly process, for example, by making the quantum dots uniform, controlling the location of their nucleation, and building quantum dot circuits.
Primary prevention aims to reduce the incidence of cancer, but the only identified determinant of cancer risk is cigarette smoking and the international community has devoted a lot of effort to this field.
